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The Little Medicine Carrier

No story in The Children’s Character Building Collection is more loved by children than The Little Medicine Carrier. Now, in a new edition with a beautiful cover, painted by Caffy Whitney!

It’s the story of a small, poor boy named George, who seeks to help his mother provide for the family by taking a job delivering medicines for the town doctor to the ill people of his village.

George’s journeys around the town become quite adventurous! – as he meets some who inspire him to serve God more faithfully, but others who seek to get him to yield to temptations to be deceitful and dishonest. This is an outstanding story for teaching your children about the value of integrity and faithfulness, even when no men are watching us, but to live as people who know that all our actions are noticed by the eye of God.

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The Little Medicine Carrier

No story in The Children’s Character Building Collection is more loved by children than The Little Medicine Carrier. Now, in a new edition with a beautiful cover, painted by Caffy Whitney!

It’s the story of a small, poor boy named George, who seeks to help his mother provide for the family by taking a job delivering medicines for the town doctor to the ill people of his village.

George’s journeys around the town become quite adventurous! – as he meets some who inspire him to serve God more faithfully, but others who seek to get him to yield to temptations to be deceitful and dishonest. This is an outstanding story for teaching your children about the value of integrity and faithfulness, even when no men are watching us, but to live as people who know that all our actions are noticed by the eye of God.

About the Stories in The Children’s Character Building Collection

One of the best gifts you could ever give a child! The eleven stories of our renowned, classic 19th century Children’s Character Building Collection are a family favorite. And this new printing of the collection is the highest-quality edition of them ever done. All 11 volumes have beautiful new art, hand-painted covers. This is our all-time favorite set of children’s stories from last century, and all with fresh artwork that captures the feel of that era!

Each of these delightful volumes is full of Biblical truth, presented in the most winsome possible stories, sure to warm the heart and teach the mind of every family member. The reading level for this set is often said to be 4th – 5th grade, but we find children of all ages enjoy them, and even adults often tell us they find them delightful to read. Check each of the books in this area of the site, for its own full description. They make wonderful read-alouds to children from K through 3rd grade too.

Now with an accompanying Study Guide compiled by Dennis Gundersen

Now our most popular children’s set has a Study Guide! Not meant as a quiz or test, The Children’s Character Building Collection Study Guide is rather a tool by which parents and children can sit down together and gain maximum profit from the stories. You can talk over each story’s key features in a way that’s enjoyable, memorable, and spiritually profitable.